"collaborative venture between historians
at Bristol and Cambridge Universities and archivists and researchers
at the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing (SHAC)":
bibliographies; China coast family history; discussion board;
links

John R. Stanley's paper on "attempts
by Chinese Christian educators to claim more power and play an
active role in the development of the Christian mission education" (Asia
Pacific: Perspectives, Dec. 2004; PDF format)

Moscow's
Financial Support to the Chinese Communist Party from 1920s
to 1940s: Part
1; Part 2

(in Chinese) Yang Kui-song's study based
on archival materials recently made available (21st Century
Net Edition, June & July 2004)

Lydia Gerber's paper on "political
interaction between German Protestant missionaries and Chinese
local elite during the first decade of the twentieth century" (Asia
Pacific: Perspectives, Dec. 2004; PDF format)

Collaboration between Institute of East
Asian Studies (Lyon), Center for Chinese Studies (Berkeley) & ECAI:
a historic photographic database centered on Shanghai but "engaged
in a constant process of enrichment and enlargement, notably
by extension to include large Chinese cities and more diverse
aspects of life in China before 1949"

"a research and resource platform on
the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays
... : essays, original documents, photographies, and maps," edited
by Christian Henriot, Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon 2 University